Hiding in plain sight: Use of realistic surrogates to reduce exposure of protected health information in clinical text

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 342-348

  Carrell, David ^a   Malin, Bradley ^b,c   Aberdeen, John ^d   Bayer, Samuel ^d   Clark, Cheryl ^d   Wellner, Ben ^d   Hirschman, Lynette ^d  

^a GROUP HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SECURITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONCOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PILOT PROJECTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874770713     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001034     Document Type: Article

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